Facilities Asset Management and Enabling The Workforce requires a focus upon managing relationships, transactions, information, tools, and resources.
Enabling the workforce specifically demands optimizing competencies and relationships among internal and external facilities services providers. While it’s widely recognized that facilities asset management is best considered from a life-cycle and best value perspective, it is rarely practiced in this manner.
Best value facilities asset management and enabling the workforce demands the integration of multiple competencies that may be in-house and external to the organization, as well as disparate information, technologies, and competing goals. Managing the numerous and ongoing facilities renovation, repair, maintenance, and minor new construction projects is particularly problematic for many real property portfolio owners. As the proper stewardship of existing buildings is generally critical to the function and bottom line performance of facility intensive organizations, improvement in this area is paramount.
Measurable and significant improvement in competencies relevant to facilities asset management and service delivery is easily attainable via LEAN collaborative construction delivery methods. Job Order Contracting, JOC, is the most widely known and used method for renovation, repair, and minor new construction.
JOC Programs, when deployed in an independent, objective, and best value manner, can consistently delivery over 90% of projects on-time, on-budget, and to the satisfaction of all participants and stakeholders. Unfortunately, less than 5% of the market current uses JOC and some sectors within this category, particularly state, county, and local governments have yet to master the concept.
Until senior management focus is upon developing required competences associated with LEAN facilities management and construction service delivery, core facilities management capabilities and outcomes will continue to suffer their legacy of waste and low productivity.
This is particularly disappointing as implementation of LEAN methods is not difficult as support tools and services abound. Based upon the level of owner resources, a JOC Program can be up and running within six months or less.
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